Selling Your CDs

[lisa needs braces]

Anybody here have any experience selling their CDs on auction sites like ebay?

I intend to sell a large portion of my CDs on ebay in order to raise some capital! But I've never even bought anything off ebay much less sell stuff!

What's the process like for selling and do people actually buy your CDs?

[head-case]

To sell a classical CD on e-bay within the nominal one week auction cycle you will probably have to price it at one quarter of the original price.  I have found it more useful to list then on Amazon marketplace, where they come up wheneven anyone searches for a new copy of the relevant disc, and where there is no time limit.  There you can often get the distinction of the "low price" by listing for half the original price.  Of course, there have been those rare cases where the CD has been deleted from the catalog and you can get some sucker to pay twice list, or more.

[Maciek]

You should probably work on your feedback a little before you start selling - buy a few items and promptly pay for them. And then, once you start selling, sell the less valuable CDs first - for the feedback again (this time as a seller).

I have no experience selling on e-bay but I often sell on a local, Polish auction site. The main difference is probably that here many less items get sold but they usually reach much higher prices.

And good luck!

Maciek

[SonicMan46]

Anybody here have any experience selling their CDs on auction sites like ebay?

I intend to sell a large portion of my CDs on ebay in order to raise some capital! But I've never even bought anything off ebay much less sell stuff!

What's the process like for selling and do people actually buy your CDs?

Not sure 'how many' CDs you own, the kind of music, or 'how much' you need, but 'used' CDs are not goin' to bring in a lot of money unless you have hundreds to sell - my brother has sold a bunch of my used classical CDs on e-Bay last year - he did them in 'bunches' - one bunch probably returned about 1/3 their purchase price & and a second bunch much less; I asked him to return the remainder, and just sold them to the Princeton Record Exchange; of course there are plenty of other online and/or local places for selling options, e.g. Secondspin.com.  At any rate, good luck in your endeavor but don't expect to get a great return on 'used' CDs - 

[Mark]

Why not list the CDs on this site first? You have a specialist audience here that's interested in what you're selling, and you won't have to go through the tedious process of listing on eBay. You also won't have to pay any fees.

[DavidW]

To sell a classical CD on e-bay within the nominal one week auction cycle you will probably have to price it at one quarter of the original price.  I have found it more useful to list then on Amazon marketplace, where they come up wheneven anyone searches for a new copy of the relevant disc, and where there is no time limit.  There you can often get the distinction of the "low price" by listing for half the original price.  Of course, there have been those rare cases where the CD has been deleted from the catalog and you can get some sucker to pay twice list, or more.

Wrong. 

You can price your ebay auctions at whatever price you want to.  Price it at a penny and you will make more at the end.  I would get 1/2-full money back by that method.  Amazon's selling whenever is less useful for me, why?  Because then I have to go to the postoffice on any day a cd just sells.  With ebay I can get payment over the weekend and ship almost everything on one trip instead of several across the week.

So the only time I sell on amazon is when I don't want to gamble, or I think the market exists on amazon but not on ebay.